Virtual Patching: A Proven Cost Savings Strategy

Author: An Ogren Group Special Report

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Summary:The traditional method of applying permanent software patches and upgrades is much too labor-intensive and invasive to applications to compete with the speed of exploits. Exploits appear in the wild only a day after announcement of a vulnerability; most damage from automated attacks occurs within the first 15 days of the news and 80% of exploits appear within 60 days. Even with a concentrated effort in maintaining compliant server and desktop configurations, the average organization still takes over 30 days to patch standard operating systems and applications, and months or years to patch complex business applications.

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